Vehicle-wheel



VEHICLE WHEEL. APPHGATIQN man MAY-M11919.

1,383,991 Q Patented July 5, 1921.

@TATEd @FFEQ EDWARD KEMP, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO GEORGE WHITAKER MORLEY, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

VEHICLE-WHEEL.

Application filed May 17,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD KEMP, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-V] heels; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same. 7

This invention has reference to wheels, having for its object to provide for the use of metal, more particularly tubular, spokes, in a simple and efiicient manner While maintaining strength and resiliency in the wheel. A further object is to provide for the use in such construction of resilient cushions between the spoke and the felly, or between the spoke and hub, or between the spoke and both the felly and the hub, in a pro tected manner, whereby access of deleterious matter to said cushions is prevented and their durability prolonged.

Further objects subsidiary to or resulting from the aforesaid objects, or from the construction or operation of the invention as it may be carried into effect, will become apparent as the said invention is herein after further disclosed.

In carrying the said invention into effect, I may provide, in combination with a felly and a hub of any suitable material. or construction, metal spokes (preferably tubular), connecting means between the spokes and the felly and hub of the wheel, such connecting means permitting a certain radial movement of the spokes with respect to the felly or to the hub, or to both the felly and the hub, cushion compartments at one or both ends of the said spokes as may be desired, resilient cushions, such as of rubber, accommodated in the said cushion compartments, and slidable closures for the outer ends of the said compartments, said closures bearing upon the said resilient cushion and upon the felly, or the hub, as the case may be, whereby the cushions are compressed in their compartments and the spokes resiliently supported with respect to the felly or the hub, or both the felly and the hub of the Wheel; all of which is more particularly Specification of Letters Patent.

1919. Serial No. 297,845.

described and ascertained, by way of example, inv and by the following description of the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a fragmentary elevation of a wheel two of the spokes being shown part in section.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of that part of the felly to which a spoke is applied.

Fig. 3 is a perspective View of one of the closures for the cushion compartment of the spoke.

gig. 4 is a perspective view of a cushion, an

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the end of a spoke, showing the cushion compartment.

The Figs. 2, 3, 4-, and 5 illustrate the parts, included in the connection between the felly and spoke, in their relative positions prior to assembling, the said figures being drawn to a larger scale than is Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference indicate similar parts in the several figures of the drawing.

In the arrangement shown, 1 is the felly and 2 the hub of a wheel, 3, being tubular spokes, preferably of metal or such other material of adequate strength and durability for the purpose, the ends of said spokes be ing connected to the hub and to the felly by means of pins or projections, 4, and 5, respectively. The connection between the spokes and the felly and the hub, is of a sliding nature with respect to both the felly and the hub, or either the felly or the hub, as desired; that is to say, in the arrangement as illustrated, the pins at either one or both ends of the spokes are slidably accommodated in. the said spokes (or in the hub or the felly, or both the hub and the felly), whereby a certain limited radial deviation between the spokes and the hub or the felly is possible.

In the drawing the ends of the pins are shown as being accommodated in short tubes 6, secured in the ends of the spokes, and the said spokes are shown as being cupped at their ends 5 to provide compartments 7, which are adapted to receive resilient cushions 8, these, in the present arrangement,

Patented July 5, 1921.

being in the form of disks, of rubber or other such suitable material, each disk having a central orifice 9 thereinto permit passage over the tubes 6 of the spokes. 7

10, are closures for the said compartments, said closures being inthe form of metal, fiber, or other suitable washers having each a central orifice 11. and adapted to be passed into the open-ends of the annular compartments 7. The thickness ofthe closures 10, is such that, when the cushions 8, are located j in the compartments 7, and the said closures positioned?thereon, they Wlll'GXtQIlCl beyond the open ends of-the said compartments; and the closures being slidable in the said compartments cushions when the telly, or the hub, against which said closures bear when in position, s

2:5. ends of'the spokes when such spokes are radially moved toward or tends to compress the spokes between the saidfelly and thehub;

The arrangement of resilient cushions in their compartments may be,1f deslred, ap

rpliedonly to'thatendof the spoke whichis radially movable with respect to the hub, o'r' totlie fellyas the case maybe, or" to both F hub, and the folly.

7 It has been a common practice to makethe fellies of wheels in two ormore sections connected together attheir ends, so thatin the device; illustrated the outer ends of the spokes may be brought or sprung into aline- V ment 'with'the pins 5, afterwhich the sections may be drawn'togeth'er and secured.

V "In this way thepins' secured in the felly will I be causedto enter the spokes.

v not necessarily indicative ofthe actual pro -40 The dimensions of he parts illustrated are portions of the said parts, and it will be accordingto the construction suggested, con= 'siderable initial compression of tl'ie'cu'shions V 'thub orftothe felly may be very slight but none the less effective. Further, theactual "clearance between the'cup'ped ends of the. 1 spokesand the hub, or the telly, may be very slight;

This invention may be developed within thescope of the fol1owin claimswithout def parting from the essential features of the said nvention and it 1S desired that the spec ficatlon and drawing be read as being merely illustrative and not in a limiting sense, except as necessitated by the prior art.

What I'claim' as my invention is Ice.

1. In awhe'el, a spoke,ara dially slidable 1 connection between "the end of said spoke andqthe,contiguouspart of said wheel, a

cushioncompartment at. the end of said spoke,laresilient cushion within said com part-merit, and a slldable closure for said compartment, said closure andsaid cushion V j amend a slidable closure for said: cum-sa d tracting of said cushion movable with respect to both the being compressively located between the partment, a radially slidable' connectionbetween the end of said spoke and the conthe end of said t-inguous part of said wheelpa resilient cushion within sa1d-' compartment, and a slidable closure for said compartment, said elosurefbearing upon said cushion and againstsaid part of the wheel contiguous to said spoke end whereby said spokeend is resiliently spaced from the said contiguous part of the wheel. they will, therefore, compress the 8. Ina wheel ,-a tubular; metal spoke, a cup on the 'spokeend, the mouth of saidcup 1 opening towardthe part oi said wheel. con- 7 tiguous to said spokeend, a resilientcushion V v withinsaid cup, a closure for the mouth of said cup, said closure bearin upon said cushion and extending beyond the mouth of said cup, and-a slidable connection between sa d spoke end and the: contiguous part of sa d wheel whereby expansion and conisjpermitted." V t 4.111 combination withthe jfelly of Y a i wheel, radial'spokes, radially slidable connections between the outerj ends ofjsaid; spokes and said-fell'y, cushion'compartments 'at the said outer ends; ofsaid spokes, re

silient cushions within said, compartments, and slldable closures for saidicompartmentsf said closures and saidcushionsfbeingi COIII-" f V pressively'located betweenthe walls of said compartments and said 'fel'lyf 5. 111 combination .with V of :a wheel, radial spokes,radially slidable connections between the ends of saidrspokes r j and said hub and said telly, cushion o'om understood that, where a wheel is assembled p'artrn'ents at the inner and Y outer ends of said spokes, resilient cushions within said compartments, and 'slidable closures forsaid" pa m nts, said closures and said" cu'shT ions being compressibly located between the walls of said compartments at the'outer ends of said spokes-and said felly,and between i the walls; of'said compartments at the'fli'nner 'endsoi'said spokes and said hubfl 6. In combinationwith the hub-lot a wheel,

radial spokes, radially slidable connections betweenithe (ends of said spokes and said hub, cushionfeompartments at thesa-idxends V of said spokes, resilient cushions within said compartments, and slidable closures for said compartments, said closures, and said cushtubular spoke having a central tubular per-- ingpin, an outwardly opening cup ,around spoke; airesilient cushion located withinsaid ionsbeing compressibly located between the r ,walls ofsaidcompartments, and said huh 1. 7, ff 7.111 a device of the type. described, a 1 x tion atits end adapted tore'ceive-a connect 1 7 said central portion at the" ends ovf said ft closure bearing upon said cushion and profor said cup said closure being Superimposed jecting from said cup. upon said cushion and projecting from 10 8. In a device of the type described, a said cup.

tubular spoke having its end expanded to Signed at the city of Toronto, in the form a cup, radial spoke-connecting means county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Within said cup, an annular resilient cushion in the Dominion of Canada, this 22d day of surrounding said connecting means and 10- April, 1919.

cated Within said cup, and a slidable closure EDWARD KEMP. 

